Hi, I have older laptop - Toshiba satellite s355-s7811 and I download new sabayon. I burn dvd and I try few times install on my laptop, but when I choose Start sabayon linux like live cd or sabayon linux installation program start but after few minutes I see only black screen. I think maybe is older bios version, but I upgrade bios and then still nothing happen. Maybe someone can help me? [SOLVED]

Last edited by tomekwalowski on Tue Mar 20, 2012 15:51, edited 4 times in total.

Hello, I tried to update an older laptop (4 yr old HP) at the weekend with Sabayon 8 KDE & got the black screen. Tried text install, graphic install etc, different boot options ... I did Alt - F1 to the terminal & ran installation (think the command was "installer" although I cannot be sure. Installation ran, it went as far as copying files & just stopped. Tried v7 KDE & it was a similar story. Tried openSUSE 12.1 & it installed 1st time in graphic mode. These were all 32bit DVDs.

I run 64bit v7 Sabayon KDE here updated to v8 on a new HP laptop & installation was a breeze. I cannot help you but you are not alone.

Shame I couldn't get Sabayon on my Mums laptop but openSUSE is a decent OS

Well, I download sabayon from few mirrors, I thought maybe thats dvd misstakes but no. I have 4 sabayon from different source and nothing. I see grub menu, but when I choose (live dvd, graphic installer, text installer) I have black screen after few minutes. I try install from pendrive but its not solution - this same black screen

When Sabayon 1st boots, you can see messages at the bottom of the screen.

Do you see something like Press Alt-F1 for details? Press and you get details.

Then black screen and message says Press F2 for details. Press and you get details. Then screen goes black for a few seconds and the desktop appears.

I may have a similar problem to yours, I have Sabayon 8 XFCE AMD 64 installed and every other time it won't boot. By that I mean, I reboot and get the grub screen, choose the default kernel and a black screen appears and it won't boot, push the reset button, get the grub menu, choose the default kernel and it boots normally, next reboot the black screen comes, push reset and it boots normally, etc.

Ok, I am step forward I run from pendrive like safe mode, and now I see sabayon screen with install on hard drive, but after few seconds all system is/are suspended :/ any solutions??? and this same problem I had when I I run text installation...